Strategic Workforce Planning

Strategic Workforce Planning is a systematic, disciplined process for identifying and addressing gaps between current and projected future workforce requirements. It provides a rational business basis for prioritizing, developing, and funding talent practices that support business objectives, while mitigating HR practice risk.

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Can Your Organization Thrive Without The Right Talent?

Employers need highly skilled employees to thrive, now and in the future. A weak pipeline or hidden talent issues can shake your organization’s very foundation before anyone has realized there might be a problem.

Organizations are good at identifying and mitigating most business risk. Yet, when it comes to finding the right workforce today – and forecasting for tomorrow – many companies are at a loss.

Shifting demographics, globalization and technology are changing the available talent pool and altering the traditional employer-employee relationship. The changes are profound for all industries – especially for those that rely on experienced, highly skilled employees.

Mercer’s systematic approach for strategic workforce planning:

Forecasts risks

Finds the right balance of quantity, quality and location of critical talent

Pinpoints internal supply of and demand for critical skills and roles under multiple business scenarios

Identifies and address critical gaps between current workforce resources and future needs